Cross-country

I'm sorry I didn't post this on Friday. I got lazy and just decided to do it on Monday.

Last week I went to our cross-country meet in Nondalton. I was there for three days and two nights. Erin didn't get to go because she got sick, but everything was fun. We got to do a lot of different activities; such as archery, a service project, icebreakers, mix six volleyball, and lots of other things. 

There were 18 girls and 27 boys that ran. We had a separate boys and girls race. I got eighth place out of 18 and I shaved four minutes off my time last year. They are sending seven boys and five girls to regionals.

The service project was filling in potholes in the roads at Nondalton. It was a service project that the student’s originally started about a month before. We also did a workshop on volunteering. Some definitions of volunteering is working without pay, doing a service, or helping someone without expecting anything in return.

Archery was fun. They had compound bows with about 30 lb. pull weight. We had a competition, which involved a "shoot off". We would put up targets on the bulls eye and we would shoot at them. They looked like upside down triangles and whoever got the closest to the point at the bottom, was picked first for the teams. Then once everyone was on a team, the teams each blew up six balloons and put them on the targets. As you might have guessed, we had to pop the balloons with the arrows. It was fun. 

The iLead students did not get to go to the "iLead retreat" because of weather. So we had a meeting and decided that somehow we were going to think of a lesson plan centering on "kindness" and the north leaders will do it at the North Volleyball Jamboree and the south leaders will do it at the South. We will also try to do a presentation on drugs, if the jamborees fall on Red Ribbon Week.  

Four other kids from other schools and I were accepted to go to a Youth Leadership Symposium in a place called "Dillingham". We are going to be there for one weekend and there will be about 60 other kids from different towns there. We will each receive one college credit. I am very excited to be able to go.

We start volleyball practice next month on the 13^th. I’m not sure whom we will have as a coach but we will have enough people to have a full three-person team and then a couple extras. The South Volleyball Jamboree will be in Port Heiden. The North will be in Levelock.

That is all for this week in my school. I will post pictures on Wednesday because there is a lot of pictures.